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Breaking Highlights, Top Alerts of July 5

02:02 pm: States and UTs have been asked to direct District Administrations to identify vulnerable areas and conduct community outreach programmes for creating awareness and building confidence: MHA (ANI)

02:01 pm: Centre has asked the states & UTs to take measures to prevent incidents of mob lynching fueled by rumours of child lifting circulating on social media. Ministry of Home Affairs has urged them to keep a watch for early detection of such rumours and initiate effective measures: MHA (ANI)

12:48 pm: Syrian govt and its Russian ally pound rebel-held areas of the southern province of Daraa with the heaviest air strikes yet (reports AFP)

12:21 pm: I propose to increase the rate of tax on petrol from the present 30% to 32% and diesel from 19% to 21%, so petrol price will be increased by Rs.1.14/ltr and diesel by Rs 1.12/ltr: Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy while presenting the budget (ANI)

12:13 pm: Supreme Court seeks response from Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, accused in 1984 Sikh riot case, on a plea by SIT challenging his anticipatory bail. Court says it is high time that Sikh riot cases are tried at the earliest (PTI)

12:04 pm: To facilitate farmers to avail new loans, action will be taken by the govt to issue clearance certificate by waiving the arrears form the defaulting account. For this purpose, Rs 6500 crore is earmarked in 2018-19 budget: Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy while presenting the budget (ANI)

11:43 am: NGT issues notice to Tamil Nadu govt, state pollution control board on plea filed by Vedanta Ltd against order to close Sterlite copper plant. Tribunal asks state govt and pollution control board to file reply in the matter by July 18 (PTI)

11:41 am: At Jio, we are determined to take India in top 5 in broadband connectivity: Mukesh Ambani

11:39 am: Starting August 15, our Jio phone 2 will be available at an introductory price of 2,999 Rs.: Mukesh Ambani

11:35 am: Starting July 21, people can exchange their existing feature phones for a new Jio phone, for Rs 501: Mukesh Ambani

11:32 am: Jio was introduced to transform India, to make every Indian a 'Digital Indian': Mukesh Ambani

11:29 am: YouTube, WhatsApp and Facebook will be available commercially to all Jio users from August 15 this year: Mukesh Ambani

11:20 am: Supreme Court issues notice to the Union of India after hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking a direction to the Central Govt to give benefits to orphans (ANI)

10:29 am: Two-year-old mowed down by private school bus in Gurugram's Bhondsi; driver on the run

10:26 am: There is nothing for Shashi Tharoor to celebrate. He is not in Tihar jail, he can sit with Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, they are also bail-wallas: Subramanian Swamy on Shashi Tharoor getting anticipatory bail in Sunanda Pushkar death case (reports ANI)